THE MENIFEE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Forested Plateau Escarpment setting.
Menifee County has 203.5 square miles of land in Kentucky. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Menifee County: Northern Forested Plateau Escarpment, Ohio/Kentucky Carboniferous Plateau, Knobs-Lower Scioto Dissected Plateau, among others.
Rounded wooded hills and intervening valleys form an unglaciated plateau landscape. Valley floors contain much of the region's open land, contrasting with its more forested slopes.
Regional context: Western Allegheny Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Menifee County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Forested Plateau Escarpment68.1%
- Ohio/Kentucky Carboniferous Plateau18.5%
- Knobs-Lower Scioto Dissected Plateau13.1%
- Outer Bluegrass0.3%
Interior Plateau in Menifee County
Open hills, irregular plains and tablelands are developed on limestone and other sedimentary rocks. Oak-hickory woodland, local prairie and cedar-glade settings contribute to this diverse inland plateau.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Menifee County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Menifee County, including Frenchburg. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Menifee County by land and water
The Census records 2.4 square miles of water within Menifee County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Menifee County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Menifee County has 242.3 times the land area of nearby Frenchburg city (0.84 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bath County, Montgomery County, Morgan County, Powell County, Rowan County, Wolfe County within Kentucky. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

